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WASHINGTON (AP) — One has been accused of assaulting another White House aide. Another allegedly threatened his ex-wife’s life, exaggerated claims of financial success and alarmed business associates with his erratic behavior. A third has asked a judge to keep past protection-from-abuse orders sealed.

(AP) --- Tesla will relocate its headquarters from Palo Alto, California, to Austin, Texas, though the electric car maker will keep expanding its manufacturing capacity in the Golden State, CEO Elon Musk said Thursday.

Musk, who last year said he was moving to Texas from California, gave no timeline for the move when he addressed shareholders at Tesla’s annual meeting.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate dodged a U.S. debt disaster Thursday night, voting to extend the government’s borrowing authority into December and temporarily avert an unprecedented federal default that experts warned would devastate the economy and harm millions of Americans.

WASHINGTON, Oct 05 (APP): Pakistan has consistently upheld the right of the people of Jammu and Kashmir to self-determination in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions that provide for an impartial plebiscite to enable the Kashmiri people to decide their future, Shehryar Khan Afridi, Chairman of the Parliamentary Special Committee on Kashmir, has said.

UNITED NATION, Oct 07 (APP): India is conducting terrorist acts in Pakistan and also against the people of Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistani Ambassador Munir Akram told a UN panel on Wednesday, while urging the world community to move and bring about an end to those operations.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. State Department has disclosed the number of nuclear weapons in the country's stockpile.

A report issued on Tuesday showed that the U.S. stockpile consisted of 3,750 nuclear warheads as of September 2020.

The stockpile includes both "active" and "inactive" warheads, the report noted, adding that some 2,000 additional warheads are currently retired and awaiting dismantlement.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week, another sign that the U.S. job market and economy continue their steady recovery from last year’s coronavirus recession.

PELHAM, Ala. (AP) — Flash flood warnings were in effect Thursday for a swath of the southeastern U.S. after a stalled weather front drenched Alabama, leaving high water that covered roads, swamped a Piggly Wiggly store, unleashed sewage and forced water rescues. A child’s death was blamed on the floods.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA said Thursday it will create a top-level working group on China as part of a broad U.S. government effort focused on countering Beijing’s influence.

The group will become one of fewer than a dozen mission centers operated by the CIA, with weekly director-level meetings intended to drive the agency’s strategy toward China. The CIA also announced that it would ramp up efforts to recruit Chinese speakers and create another mission center focusing on emerging technologies and global issues such as climate change and global health.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A report by the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Democratic majority details Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election that he lost, with the Justice Department brought to the brink of chaos and top officials there and at the White House threatening to resign.